: Open Data Navarra

Pamplona
Navarre
ES

: Open Data US

Washington DC
US

: Open Data UK

GB

: Open Data Norway

NO

: Open Data Australia

Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments. Easy access to other government data catalogues offering open data is provided through our Catalogues page.data.gov.au
Australian Government Information Management Office Department of Finance and Deregulation
King Edward Terrace
Parkes
AU

: Open Data Spain

ES

: Open Data Uruguay

UY

: Open Data France

FR

: Open Data Brazil

BR

: Open Data NYC

New York
NY
US

: Open Data Boston

The City of Boston recognizes the value and benefits which may be gained by sharing data with other organizations, and encourages data sharing whenever possible. This Data License Agreement applies to any and all general public, governmental, non-governmental and private industries with an interest in City of Boston data. http://www.cityofboston.gov/doit/databoston
Boston
MA
US

: Open Data Fingal

Fingal
County Dublin
IE

: Open Data France

Paris
Île-de-France
FR

: Open Data Moldova

: AS220

AS220 is a non-profit community arts space in downtown Providence. Its mission is to provide an unjuried and uncensored forum for the arts. http://www.as220.org/about/about-as220.html
115 Empire Street
Providence
Rhode Island
United States

: Berlinerpool

Berlinerpool is an artist initiative that structures a cooperative network of artists, curators and art spaces. The online profile pages and mobile archive provide information about berlinerpool members. Berlinerpool offers consulting and research services for curators, develops its own projects and participates in exhibitions and events. http://www.berlinerpool.de
Soldiner str. 92
Berlin
Germany

: Scotty Entreprises

Scotty Entreprises, founded in 2006, is a space from artists for artists, located in Kreuzberg in the city of Berlin. Exhibition space, thinking space, space of action,and it gives spacefor artistic experiments. http://www.scotty-enterprises.de
Oranienstr. 46
Berlin
Germany

: W139

W139 is a presentation and production space for contemporary art in the centre of Amsterdam. It was founded in 1979 by a group of young artists who wanted to present an alternative to the collections and exhibitions on show at the city’s museums and commercial galleries. http://w139.nl/en/
Warmoesstraat 139
Amsterdam NL

: OpenDataBC (citizens led catalog)

OpenDataBC is a collaborative effort by a group of B.C. citizens. We want to help all of us to have better access to information, so that we understand our government better. To answer questions such as how goverment spends our money, and what data is used to make decisions on our behalf.

We believe that open data helps to promote innovation, because citizens can use government datasets to build applications, ask better questions, and provide alternative answers and solutions.http://www.opendatabc.ca
British Columbia
Canada

: City of London Open data

City of London's Open Data beta web pages are part of the City of London's commitment to improving citizen engagement and enhancing transparency and accountability to its residents, the City is pleased to begin providing public access to its data sets. http://www.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Open_Data/default.htm
London
Ontario
Canada

: Group Open Data London

A group of citizens in London, Ontario, promoting the use of Open Data in the community. Goal: to foster an innovative community of citizens that leverage open data in new ways to benefit the citizens of London. In doing so, this group hopes to bring together our community and non-profit organizations with educational institutions, to create not only projects but lasting bonds that benefit all.

: City of Nanaimo Data Catalog

The City of Nanaimo deployed the Open Data Publisher in June 2011 to aggregate all the open data currently on the main website. The publisher brings together data already provided across a variety of custom applications into one searchable location with an OData API.
Nanaimo
British Columbia
Canada

: Citizens’ APP Group – OpenData Ottawa

We’re a small group of citizens who thought it would be neat to throw parties where everyone walks away having made something with public data that somehow betters their own city.Get in touch via Twitter at @opendataottawa or by way of electronic mail: info@opendataottawa.cahttp://blog.opendataottawa.ca
Ottawa
ON
CA

: Eye Beam Art + Technology Center

Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.

Founded in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production.

Since then, Eyebeam has supported some 245 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists; we've run an active education program for youth, artists' professional development and community outreach; and have mounted an extensive series of public programs, over recent years approximately 4 exhibitions and 40 workshops, performances and events annually.

Today, Eyebeam offers residencies and fellowships for artists and technologists working in a wide range of media. At any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists and fellows onsite at Eyebeam's 15,000-square foot Chelsea offices and Labs, developing new projects and creating work for open dissemination through online, primarily open-source, publication as well as a robust calendar of public programming that includes free exhibitions, lectures and panels, participatory workshops, live performances and educational series.http://eyebeam.org
540 W 21st St.
New York
État de New York
US

: LabforCulture.org European Cultural Foundation

We work with and for artists, arts and culture organisations and networks, cultural professionals and audiences in the 50 countries of Europe, as well as providing a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world.

Our mission is both to ensure that all those working on cultural collaboration have access to up-to-the-minute information and to encourage the cultural sector to become more experimental with online technologies.http://www.labforculture.org
Jan van Goyenkade 5
Amsterdam
Hollande-Septentrionale
NL

: Nomadic village 2009

In the last decade, many traditional obstacles to exploring the world as an individual, like borders and monopolies of institutions and information, vanished. To probe this freedom, mobile projects like traveling mini-states, on-the-road-cinemas, busses converted to ateliers and galleries and trans-national music projects started to appear. In this context, On The Road Productions exercises an artistic activism, that finds and creates spaces, in which artists can work outside of the walls of existing institutions. ORP fosters projects that aim at finding and expressing independent and original views. Centerpiece is a Steyr-Ikarus bus that has been converted into an atelier-, office- and gallery-space.

The Nomadic Village 2009 was an enlarged space of that character, an artist residence with a slight festival character, in which various mobile projects created a microcosm together. The participants brought their own housings, like buses, vans or caravans, that became the structure of the temporary village.http://nomadic.cd/2009/NV09.html
Павликени
Veliko Tarnovo
BG

: Nomadic Village 2012

The Nomadic Village is a temporary 10-day settlement set up on a vacant lot in County Durham, UK. The nomadic artists’ mobile homes/ateliers will form the structure of the Village, with On The Road Productions’ (ORP) Steyr-Ikarus bus acting as its townhall. Artists will come together to work in this autonomous environment to stimulate creativity and exchange, and attract local people to observe and participate in the process. At the end of the Village there will be a public exhibition/show that will invite a woder audience to appreciate the works produced during the Village. The project is run by Klaus Maehring (Lead Artist and founder) from ORP/Austria.

The Nomadic Village UK 2012 is produced in collaboration with ISIS Arts (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and supported by Durham County Arts Team. It will seek to invite nomadic artists from all over the world, whose practice is rooted in themes surrounding nomadism; those who intentionally displace themselves to seek encounters that not only influence their work but form it; artists who work without borders and constantly respond to situations, places and people along their journey. The Nomadic Village will act as a platform for artists working in this manner, ultimately creating a wider, more visible network for nomadic artists.http://nomadic.cd/UK2012/index.html
Wolsingham
County Durham
GB

: Kulturlabor Trial & Error

Kulturlabor Trial & Error is a collective of designers and craftivists, thinkers and doers, artists and project managers - who implement social and cultural projects. By using media, handicraft and art as tools Kulturlabor T&E is active mainly in its local community, to experience, experiment with and exchange knowledge and skills.

Kulturlabor T&E works with creative activism, upcycling and development of social networks, using principles of D.I.Y, Open Source Culture and non-formal education.http://www.trial-error.org
Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20
Berlin
Berlin
DE

The name of Pixelache was found in an article that predicted new words which we would need in future. The word ‘pixelache’ (similar to ‘headache’) was supposed to describe the feeling that results from an overdose of digital media content. This overdose can happen easily if the content is too monotonic – which is the case if standards, formats, tools and design principles converge to a narrow set of options.

Pixelache wants to challenge mainstream standards and conventions, not only related to media and technology, but in the contemporary society in general.http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/
Tallberginkatu 1
Helsinki
Uusimaa
FI

: Direktorenhaus

Since June 2010, the Direktorenhaus

is the new, central venue for Berlin’s design and art scene.Not limited by just aesthetic value, here traditional art and craft methods are coupled with analogue technology and digital media in exhibitions. Artists, designers and researchers come to the Direktorenhaus to collaborate across disciplines,merging ideas and principles of many fields.

From fine art to various applied arts practices such as illustration, glass, ceramics to the product design and

new artistic strategies - all in pursuit

of creative insights that improve our world.

The Direktorenhaus's scientific and cultural missions are supported by philanthropic individuals and foundations, forward-thinking partner companies, and government agencies.http://www.direktorenhaus.com/
Am Krögel 2
Berlin
Berlin
DE

: Platoon.org

: Sages + Scientists Symposium 2012

The Merging of a New Future will explore a series of fantastic emerging facts – the only genuine currency of science – and a contemporary synthesis where science and soul coexist comfortably. Without such a merging, our world cannot survive. Some of the most urgent questions facing our future evolution will be addressed.

Everything will be examined from the perspectives of both sages and scientists, with a view to finding common ground.http://www.choprafoundation.org
Carlsbad
Californie
US

: Future Logistics Living Lab

The purpose of the Future Logistics Living Laboratory is to deliver innovation to the Australian logistics industry to•make logistics more efficient, greener, safer•be a world recognised thought leaderThe lab brings together industry, research and government to work on real world problems and solve them with innovative technologies. The Living Lab assists industry in cost effectively addressing challenges such as rising fuel costs, increasing road congestion, reducing emissions and improving safety. Industry participants drive the agenda of world-class research within the Living Lab community.

: Mobile City Bregenz

The „Mobile City Bregenz“ was founded in 2004 in collaboration with the Mobilkom Austria. Mobile City Bregenz was the first Mobile City in Austria and one of the first Mobile Cities in Europe. The region has committed itself to the development of Mobile Services for Citizens and Tourist alike. Thus Bregenz has on the one Hand supported the implementation of a mobile Broadband Infrastructure (e.g. UMTS HSDPA) while at the same time supporting the development of new innovative services for the citizens and tourists in Bregenz. Since the launch of the Mobile City Bregenz several unique services have been developed and successfully deployed. These services are fully operational and the further development and validation of these services is now taking place in the city of Bregenz.
Belruptstraße 1
Wolfgang Nägele
Bregenz
Vorarlberg
AT

: Evolaris Mobile Living Lab

The evolaris Mobile Living Lab joined the European Network of Living Labs in the 3rd wave (November 2008). The host organisation evolaris next level Privatstiftung brings in the experience of 8 years of research in the field of web-based and mobile applications focusing at the same time on user as well as on business aspects. The evolaris Mobile Living Lab will improve the product development cycle of user-centred and socially acceptable mobile services for young people, especially those in formal education, i.e. pupils and students.The evolaris Mobile Living Lab acts as an innovation service provider by offering a “probe” for researching user needs and wants in the context of mobile services for young people and to co-create services, which are then highly accepted by the target group. The key offerings are grouped around the design process of mobile services: Mobile and online panels as well as observation through innovation scouts from the target group (exploration phase), focus groups and web-based discussions (idea generation phase), development of mobile software prototypes and user trialling in both the field and in the evolaris user experience lab (implementation phase), and finally online and mobile surveys as well as face-to-face interviews before and after market launch.http://www.evolaris.net
Graz
AT

: LivingLab Schwechat

LivingLab Schwechat is part of Schwechat’s Information Society Initiative eSchwechat.at. It focusses on rehabilitation and Ambient Assisted Living technologies as well as on modern urban and regional planning technologies. It’s open both to companies and research institutes. Schwechat’s municipal facilities represent a perfect context for trying out ICT developments. The small town structure, manageable population numbers and short distance to the municipality administration enable an effective environment for user centric product development. The Municipality’s commitment to deploy and demonstrate new technologies provides a good basis for a sustainable LivingLab. LivingLab Schwechat’s major stakeholders are the Municipality of Schwechat, CEIT Central European Institute of Technology, CEIT ALANOVA, CEIT RALTEC, Innovation Consultancy (managing the LivingLab Schwechat) and their business partners.http://www.ceit.at
Schwechat
Basse-Autriche
AT

: Sound of Media LL

SoMLL is a self-financed consortium of SMEs and research institutes of different fields. The steering board consists of highly committed people from four different organisations within the Austrian Alps region. This model, and the operating scheme behind, is one of the contributions to best practices. Other may be found in ICT innovations for collaborated, cross-industry working.SoMLL – „Sound Of Media Living Lab“ a newly started (2009) corporate-driven living lab is located in the Austrian Alps region. Major drivers are regional SMEs from the Austrian alp region and the Austrian govermental institutions which are representing the interests of Austrian business in a pluralistic society and advocates the social market economy, the deepening and enlargement of the EU.http://somll.spiritmedia.at
Spirit Media
GmbH Feldstraße 10 / Top A3 A-4642
Sattledt
Haute-Autriche
AT

: IBBT-iLab.o

IBBT-iLab.o sets up test and experimentation platforms and performs Living Lab research for achieving policy and business goals using stakeholder co-design. It is part of IBBT VZW and works closely with the User Policy Department, based at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. IBBT iLab.o used the UrbiZone network, a WiFi mesh pilot network in the heart of Brussels, covering all college and university campuses.http://www.ibbt.be
IBBT-iLab.o
Pleinlaan 9
Bruxelles
BE

: LeYLab

The objective of LeYLab is to build a living lab environment for Next Generation Access (NGA), based upon fibre, in geographical restricted areas. The goal of this living lab is to test innovative applications/ services over this NGA infrastructure. Fibre offers unprecedented test facilities, in terms of bandwidth and QoS, and stimulates the ICT sector to develop innovative applications, which make optimum use of the fibre capacity. The initial focus of LeYLab is mainly residing in Multimedia and e-Health applications, both in the broadest sense of their meaning. Multimedia not only comprises audio, video and still images, but also gaming for instance, while e-Health should not be seen from a purely medical perspective but also refers to wellbeing in general including solutions for supporting elderly persons.http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
Copernicuslaan 50
2018 Antwerp
Anvers
Vlaams Gewest
BE

: Ghent Living Lab

The Ghent Living Lab focuses on these key areas: (1) e-inclusion; (2) e-government and eparticipation; (3) digital innovation through developing future internet enabled services for smart cities; (4) green digital development including ICT enabled energy efficiency, smart energy and specific initiatives such as the Green Digital Charter.The Ghent Living Lab is coordinated by the City of Ghent, and works in partnership withIBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology), Digipolis, Ghent University,the University Colleges Hogeschool Gent, Arteveldehogeschool and KaHo Sint-Lieven. ByAutumn 2011, we aim to boost the Ghent Living Lab with local networks or communityorganisations working on or interested in the key areas of the Ghent Living Lab.http://www.gent.be
Gand
Vlaams Gewest
BE

: Egg Lab

Egg Lab, Belgium.

Bara street 175
Anderlecht
Bruxelles
BE

: Flemish Living Lab Platform

What is key to the Flemish Living Lab Platform■Focus on innovative products and services for users in an intelligent home environment.■A transparent living lab process: reduce transaction costs for those participating – clear ground rules for all participants – how participate, how they get, how they exit, etc.■Creating value, accelerating innovation, and hence economic activity within Flanders and abroad.■A strong consortium consisting of large companies (Telenet, Alcatel Lucent), strong innovative SME’s (Androme, Fifthplay), a research organisation experienced in Living Lab research (IBBT i.Lab.o) and interface organisations (Smart Grid Flanders, Kennis Centrum Vlaamse Steden, Medianet Vlaanderen) having access to a broad network of relevant stakeholders.The Flemish Living Lab platform is set up with a clear vision: Living Lab research is relevant to valorize ICE (Information Communication and Entertainment) research & development, Living Lab research is expensive, time consuming and complex to set up. http://www.flemishlivinglabplatform.be
Liersesteenweg 4
Malines
Vlaams Gewest
BE

: ESPÍRITO SANTO CIDADANIA DIGITAL LIVING LAB

The Digital Citizenship Living Lab, NCD, is an Extended Program of the Federal University of Espírito Santo. It develops and offers computational services to the community, so that it promotes digital inclusion in the state of Espírito Santo. As main activities, there are the direct attendance to the public, several offered courses, the produced technical notes and brochures and the support given to other digital inclusion projects in the state of Espírito Santo.http://www.ncd.ufes.br/
Address: Núcleo de Cidadania Digital, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514
Centro de Vivência, Campus Universitário Goiabeiras
Vitória
BR

: Amazon Living Lab

The main mission of the Amazon Living Lab - ALL is to develop products that give accessibility to handicapped people of all different types using special means of research based in electronics, digital signal and image processing, video compression, information technology and communication with the participation of the future users and the rehabilitation institutions involved in all phases of the product development, since its concept idea to its finalization. Beyond this, as the impairments (talk, hear, vision and physics) which are related to the products developed by this Living Lab are not restricted to a region or country specific, they can be available for handicapped people in Brazil as also in the European Community.http://www.fpf.br
FPF – Fundação Desembargador
Paulo Feitoza Manaus
Amazonas
BR

: INdT- Well Being and Health Care LL / Mobile Work Spaces Living Lab

The Nokia Institute of Technology (INdT) is located in Manaus, S. Paulo, Recife and Brasilia in Brazil. INdT develops user driven innovation platforms to support mobile products and services. User driven open innovation involves large scale involvement of motivated communities that get involved in the innovation process from the time of a new idea is created. The INdT Mobile Work Spaces Living Lab mission is to realize the vision of becoming a major player in the new emerging innovation fields of:1. Active SpacesActive Spaces aim to innovate on new ways to support adhoc collaboration and multitasking in mobile workplaces. The active spaces platform developed by NOKIA provides the ideal environment to design, pilot, experiment and optimize new collaboration application and concepts access to different platforms. INdT Mobile Work Spaces Living Lab will provide a user driven environment involving communities of users to address the challenge of defining the new services. The users experimentation should provide a better understanding of the needs for multitasking in the work environment and the level of inclusion of social aspects in the collaboration of the work space. We need to find the answers for what the users are motivated to adopt and what they feel as threatening their privacy and autonomy.2. Internet of ThingsInternet of Things includes an area with tremendous potential, where new sensing and communication technologies, along with their associated usage scenarios and applications, are driving many new research projects and business models. Three major themes pervade the development environment: novel sensing technologies to capture real- world phenomena, the evaluation of novel applications using both new and existing technologies and the appropriate infrastructure to facilitate communications with and the localization of billions of networked real-world objects. While all these technology developments are exciting, they also bear profound challenges from a social, legal and economic perspective. These are issues where the different users need to be part of the innovation process leading to the solutions as it is the case of the Living Lab methodology.http://www.indt.org.br
INdT(Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia)
Av. Torquato Tapajós 7200
Manaus
Amazonas
BR

: Habitat Living Lab

The Habitat Living Lab is a social network ecosystem for Research & Development, Education and Continuing Education, which has the purpose to develop and apply environmental friendly technologies in collaboration with low-income communities, to improve the conditions of urban housing and rural properties, aiming to contribute to supply the basic human needs of adequate housing, clean water, healthy food, renewable energy and proper treatment and disposal of waste. The developed technologies may be related to any aspect of the housing problems of low income people and therefore necessarily to be focused on solutions of low cost and maintenance.http://web3.ufes.br/habitat/consulado_en.html
Espírito Santo
ES
BR

: EDP/Brasil LL

Our efforts are directed to a wide range of areas such as energy efficiency, reduction of the environmental impact of energy generation and distribution, quality improvement, automation of electricity generation and distribution, electronic metering, smart grids etc. These experiences allowed us to develop capabilities in: electricity generation and distribution; co-creation; research; project management; product development; demonstrational piloting and training.The EDP/Brasil Living Lab understands that openness is a major source of superior efficiency in innovation, thus we frequently take part in conferences, symposiums and meetings to present our projects and findings. We also publish the results and detailed information of our innovative processes, particularly within associations of the electricity industry and within the sphere of ANEEL, the Brazilian agency that regulates the electric energy industry.
EDP – Rua Bandeira Paulista
530. Itaim
Guarulhos
État de São Paulo
BR

: Amazonas Living Lab

Amazonas Living Lab constitutes an innovation technological platforms network, focused in the management and products processes of the biomass in the rainforest of State of Amazonas. It helps promote user-­driven open innovation through methods and tools used for improving the real-­world development of products and services. Its purpose is the development of network programs headed to increase the environment and social-economic value of the regional populations centered in the sustainable idea, specially related to the nature, culture, technological innovation and environment education. It works as a communications hub and it will be an open umbrella brand for enabling companies and the public sector to get in touch and co-­operate with research organizations and their end-­users in the Amazonian region. http://www.sect.am.gov.br
Secretaria de Estado de Ciência Tecnologia, (Secretário Odenildo Teixeira Sena)
Av. Mário Ypiranga Monteiro, 3.280
Manaus
Amazonas
BR

: Virtual Services and Open Innovation

VirtSOI Living Lab is planning to build a live ecosystem where research, training and innovation interfere and enhance each other in order to develop and deploy innovative products and virtual services at national and European level with an active end-user participation and international collaboration. The LL is an open organizational structure that consolidates the efforts of several stakeholders.http://www.virtech-bg.com
Str., ent. A
Sofia
Sofia
BG

: Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]

Montreal’s Society of Arts and Technologies (SAT) is an important component of this convergent spirit and consensus. Its focus on Art & Development for the creative capabilities of the digital cultural world provides the Montreal creative digital community with an innovative window on the growing opportunities to create and introduce innovation and high-quality cultural content. The core of the concept of an Urban Hub that SAT has been developing is to offer an open and evolving platform of leading-edge software (mostly open source), digital technology and resources for the creation, diffusion and distribution of digital cultural content. The platform will be used in an environment modeled on open collaborative networks and connected with the world. SAT Urban Hub provides support, resources and facilities for Montreal and Quebec artists, researchers and business developers to explore, experiment and innovate with new digital technologies. Combined with broadband fiber network in situ, on their own or in collaboration with peers elsewhere in Canada and the world, content creators can pursue a variety of objectives, whether cultural, social, and economic or of as yet undefined futuristic nature. The SAT Urban Hub integrates the components of creative space, talent, technology and networks to offer a positive generative capability, robustly supported by the growing pervasiveness of digital infrastructure. This integration of capability and talent support, enhance and reinforce the positive mutations of creativity kick-started by the appearance of the Internet and Web in our lives and the growing ability to distribute cultural content easily in a fully enabled IP environment.http://www.sat.qc.c
1197 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
C.P. 1083
Montréal
QC
CA

: Green China Livinglab

Green China Livinglab serving for society and enhance the life quality by human-centric principle and promoting the innovation, co-creation and communication between our members and partners. Green China Livinglab hence build cooperation with government agency, college, enterprise and community in and outside China to make up a uniform innovation aggregate.http://www.chinalivinglab.com
NO.158, west 3rd Street
Tianjin Airport Industrial Park
Tianjin
Tianjin
CN

: China Mobile Research Institute

13 professional researchers and 5 part-time interns, head-mounted and table-based high-speed eye trackers, powerful behaviour-analysis platform, with more than 100,000 mobile users panel , online survey platform with 20 questionnaire template covering multiple mobile business fields, multiple data collecting methodsincluding internet/wap/SMS/client, independently development user behavior analysis system including the modules of data cleaning/data mining/social network analysis/text mining/web mining/personalized recommendation, all of those enable LUB to stand at the frontier of user behaviour study of mobile communications. The mission of LUB is to serve the CMCC interest in product development, precision marketing, service innovation and research by involving users in the whole cycle of product and service development. User- centered design has been always the philosophy of LUB. User play a key role in defining requirement and target users, creating use cases, designing concept and prototype, getting feedback of products and services on market, etc..
No.53A,Xibianmennei Ave
Xuanwu District
Pékin
Pékin
CN

: CINTEL - La Boquilla - CO

The objective of this Living Lab is to foster innovation for community building through the appropriation of ICTs. The Living Lab is located in the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, built around a vulnerable community of approximately 17000 afro descent people (La Boquilla), with very low level of income and poor living conditions. During 4 years of work, the community has had access to technology thanks to donations and contributions of important computer manufacturers, Colombian national government, universities, not-for-profit organizations, and national and international telecommunication companies, among others.http://www.cintel.org.co
Cartagena
Bolívar
CO

: Living Lab Cluster TIC´S Bogota

LIVING LAB CLUSTER TIC BOGOTÁ – COLOMBIA is a cluster of the IT colombian sector, Digital Animation and Video Games enterprises, which is involved in benefit SME, as well as the national and international industry. These innovative activities are present in the ICT research, application and development, also emerging technologies, knowledge management, coaching, technology transfer and network alliances with government entities, industry, education and academic actors.As a principal objective of LIVING LAB CLUSTER TIC BOGOTÁ – COLOMBIA’s activities have been the improved of social environment with initiatives of current technologies application that bring support to all economic sectors.http://www.esicenter-sinertic.org/index.php
CARRERA 19 B NO. 83
02 OFICINA 703
Bogotá
Bogota
CO

: Living Lab ‘Antioquia, Departamento del Conocimiento’

'Antioquia, Department of Knowledge' Living Lab, which is found in Colombia, is aimed at development of the Department of Antioquia as a ‘Territory of Knowledge’, from the strengthening of entrepreneurship in Antioquia and the creation of ventures in the 125 municipalities of the 9 sub-regions of the Department, including its capital Medellin for their productivity and competitiveness, through intensive, productive and efficient use of ICT as a means of appropriation of open and collaborative innovation with direct and extensive involvement of citizens, impacting more than 6 million people.With the Certification for the Department of Antioquia Member of the European Network of Living Labs, ENoLL, and with the support and co-participation with its network, it develops a joint multi-sectoral collaborative strategy, about ICT as a tool for Open Innovation, with broad and direct participation of the citizens.http://www.paisdelconocimiento.org/AntioquiaLL
Antioquia
CO

: TLL Kypros - Territorial Living Lab Kypros

Territorial Living Lab Kypros (TLL Kypros) is an entirely demand-driven Living Lab, in that the starting baseline consists in a set of overlapping community networks with different kinds of needs for sustainable development, which are now welcoming the introduction of ICT from a research standpoint for the development of services and platforms that can enhance innovation processes they are already engaged in. The TLL Kypros partnership has grown as a function of networking activities of ANETEL, the Larnaca District Development Agency, in a series of EU-funded programmes of inter-regional and territorial cooperation primarily with other regions in South-East Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. This process matured into a Living Lab through one such initiative, the MedLab project of the ERDF MED Programme, which is building a territorially-oriented trans-Mediterranean Living Lab through the coordination of regional innovation strategies. The starting configuration of TLL Kypros is designed as a function of the MedLab Tourism Pilot project being executed under the responsibility of ANETEL, but with in mind its generalisation and extension to other sectors such as health, textiles and water management. The architecture follows a layered model where the foundation consists of the local communities built up by ANETEL in the region. Specific TLL Kypros initiatives are then built on top of the ForumLarnaca and TLL Kypros web platforms as exploration of concrete services related to the sustainable development of the Larnaca District and Cyprus overall.http://www.anetel.com
Oroklini
District de Larnaca
CY

: WIRELESSINFO – Czech Living Labs

WIRELESSINFO is a virtual research village which brings together SMEs, research and industry. The focus of the WIRELESSINFO is new development, testing and exploitation of services and technologies for spatial data management in areas of rural development including agriculture and forestry, emergency systems, logistics and public administration.The objective of WIRELESSINFO is to use the full potential by implementing existing and new web- based GIS solutions to improve the quality of decisions in the public and private sectors, improve employment opportunities for the residents of rural areas, strengthen the rural economy and support the creation of solutions for emergency cases and transport. This situation provides a rationale for the utilisation of a new spatial knowledge management systems based on emerging geo-information technologies for a more efficient collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of agricultural information. Such systems need to be user-friendly and, simultaneously, able to perform real scientific multi-criteria analyses: Geographic Information System (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). These relatively new geo-information technologies are particularly suitable for the systematic assessment and monitoring of rural areas. WIRELESSINFO not only supports the development and utilisation of new solutions but also actively participates in European and global standardisation activities. It participates actively in the INSPIRE and UNSDI initiatives and also actively contributes through its members in OGC standardisation activities.http://www.wirelessinfo.cz
WIRELESSINFO
Cholinská 1048/19
Litovel
Olomouc
CZ

: Copenhagen Living Lab

Copenhagen Living Lab is a leading Danish consultancy firm, operating in the field of userdriven innovation. We help our clients create direction, minimise risk and ensure a solid foundation for innovation initiatives.We help our clients create new business opportunities, based on insights into needs and motivations framed by everyday life of common – and uncommon – people.We bring organisations closer to their customer’s everyday life, and help transforming insight into unmet customer needs, into strategies for innovation.We develop and facilitate complex co-creation processes, where mutual business partners and customer become involved as active players in the development of new solutions.http://www.copenhagenlivinglab.com
Njalsgade 88, 2
Copenhague
Hovedstaden
DK

: Regional strategic impact through creative use of ICT (LLMidt)

1) A collection of living labs in a small area crossing many different sectors brings a unique opportunity to obtain insight into the strategic development of a geographical area.2) With the Central Denmark Region as the main stakeholder, access to regional installations and organisations can be easily coordinated.3) User driven innovation is a core methodology for the main partners in the living lab, offering many years of experience.4) In the long run and in addition to European funding, local funding can be released to supplement individual living labs.http://www.regionmidtjylland.dk/
Skottenborg 26
Viborg
Jutland-Central
DK

: Turku Archipelago LL

The Turku Archipelago is the Finnish part of the Scandinavian Islands. It is called Åboland in Swedish and consists of 20 000 islands and 22 700 bilingual inhabitants. The Turku Archipelago, represented by Region Åboland r.f., the regional development agency for the eight rural archipelago municipalities of south-west Finland, proudly joins the European Network of Living Labs. Åboland is a hotbed of technical development and innovation, featuring the first wireless WIMAX broadband network in Finland and MEBB, the citizens’ archipelago intranet.
Archipelagnet Ltd / Region Åbolan r.f.
P.O.Box 120
Pargas
Finland

: Agro Living Lab, Seinäjoki

Agro Living Lab focuses on usability and user-centred design for technologies in agriculture and forestry.Agro Living Lab locates in Finland, in the region of Seinäjoki which has a strong competence in the sectors the living lab is focusing on. It is a co-operation concept of Seinäjoki Technology Centre Ltd. and Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences.The objective of the living lab is to boost the whole production chain from a field to a consumer’s table. The focus is strongly on machine design and man-machine interfaces. The living lab is an R&D tool especially for the companies but also for universities. Current service offering includes usability evaluation made with real end-users or by experts. The services are well-defined and conceptualised so that they are easy to use for companies. Furthermore, our pre- collected user network makes it easy and fast to start a living lab project. Exact service descriptions and user network lowers the threshold of the companies to use the services of Agro Living Lab. The services are targeted to the companies that are making business in agriculture and forestry. Other stakeholders are end-users, to whom the final products of the companies are developed, and universities and other development organizations. In practise the companies will contact the Agro Living Lab, which maintains the user network and negotiates the assignment with the company, coordinates and accomplishes the assignment with the end-users and reports the results with the result report for the company.http://www.frami.fi
Frami, Tiedekatu 2
Seinäjoki
Ostrobotnie du Sud
FI

: Kainuu Living Lab (Snowpolis)

Snowpolis is a young and rapidly developing international multidisciplinary technology park. Snowpolis specializes in well-being, sports and year-round winter. Snowpolis is located in Vuokatti, which is ranked one of the world’s most versatile tourism centres offering activities all the year round.Snowpolis is dedicated to human well-being: sports, nutrition and winter technology. It is an environment where research, development, education, and business converge in the field of physical activity, sports nutrition, winter sports, and winter technology. Region is a perfect mini-market to companies for testing their products and services.http://www.snowpolis.com
Kidekuja 2
Vuokatti
Kainuu
FI

: Lahti Living Lab

The Lahti Living Lab promotes innovation in a challenging environment: Lahti has no university of its own and a low level of research input. To overcome these facts, the Lahti region has launched a network facilitating innovation policy, which aims at finding the seeds of innovations from the practice and daily life. To support the policy, resource- based futures research and concrete tools like innovation sessions, innovation catchers, innovation links are developed.http://www.lut.fi
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lahti unit Suvi Konsti-Laakso
Lahti
Päijät-Häme
FI

: Northern Rural-Urban Living Lab (NorthRULL)

The initiative, NorthRULL, has been launched by a set of northernmost regions of Finland and, within them, by a Triple Helix constellation of the Regional Councils and development agencies, the two universities and the HEI network, and the key enterprise clusters. The formulation “Northern Rural-Urban Living Lab” states our intention to experiment with, learn from, and put into effect forms of innovative interplay between ICT-intensive growth- hubs on the one hand and rural areas on the other. In the latter, three fourths of the 700,000 people of northern Finland live on about 133 000 square kilometres. It is their economic and demographic vitality as well as sustainable growth and new regional development practices that NorthRULL aims to enhance. The entire approach builds upon the strengths and challenges of the rural peripheral areas.http://www.northrull.fi
University of Oulu, Learning and Research Services
P.O. BOX 7910
OULU
Ostrobotnie du Nord
FI

: Laurea Living Labs Network

Laurea (www.laurea.fi) is a R&D oriented university of applied sciences. Laurea operates in the Helsinki metropolitan area and it is focused on service innovations. Laurea's strategic choice is to integrate its three tasks - education, R&D and regional development. It has created the Learning by Developing (LbD) model as a tool for reaching its strategic goals and implementing them in practise.Through its several locations and its LbD-based innovation process Laurea acts both as a host organisation for a few Living Labs, and as an innovation service provider in Living Lab and Test Bed context. The focus of R&D is welfare, knowledge intensive business services and social responsibility.
Laurea University of Applied Sciences
Keskikatu 3 a
Kerava
Uusimaa
FI

: DMY

DMY Berlin is an international design network for contemporary product design. At the yearly DMY International Design Festival Berlin both renowned and young, experimental designers launch new products, prototypes and foresighted projects. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, able to reflect current topics of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its related disciplines.

Furthermore DMY yearly assigns the DMY Awards for excellent projects. With international exhibitions and activities in Europe, Asia and South America, DMY gives visibility to unconventional and innovative projects and products that go beyond the mainstream.http://dmy-berlin.com
Am Flutgraben 3
Berlin
Berlin
DE

: SmartLab

SMARTlab Research Institute is a Digital Media and Creative Technology Innovation Centre with three distinct threads of activity:1. A practice-based PhD programme, MA programme and research centre for designers, artists and technologists working in artistic domains, who have long encountered difficulties in placing their work in relation to the academy: in finding appropriate ways to ‘measure’ artistic practice in ‘research exercises’; in identifying appropriately flexible and experimental forms for artistic research processes and outcomes; and in competing for academic funding.2. A suite of community engagement and creative industries projects around e-inclusion and design for ability, assistive technology, IT for women and girls, and educational inclusivity.3. A knowledge transfer centre and sensory studio that operates as a space where local communities can join forces with UCD academics, artists, technologists and game designers to make and test games and interactive tools.http://smartlab-ie.com
Dublin
Comté de Dublin
IE

: The Hub Bombay

We're a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world. The Hub is a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at 'new frontiers' to tackle the world's most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges.

We believe that there is no absence of good ideas in the world. The problem is a crisis of access, scale, resources and impact. So it felt vital to create places around the world for accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment.http://the-hub.net/places/bombay
Bombay
Maharashtra
IN

: Spaghetti Open Data

A loose group of civic hackers and civil servants who care about bringing open data to Italy. Read more
Piazza Fiume
Rome
Lazio
IT

: Vita Europe

Vita Europe is the voice of the European non-profit sector. An online space for civil society to get informed, get connected and get active.---Vita Europe was born from within the well-established Vita non profit contents group which, since 1994, has been publishing the benchmark third sector weekly newspaper in Italy.

One of its most promising and vibrant journalists thought that what Vita had brought to Italy in terms of civil society identity and culture, it should also bring to Europe.http://www.vitaeurope.org
Milan
Lombardy
IT

: FutureGov

FutureGov is a consultancy and social innovation incubator helping to shape the future of government.Digital, design and social innovation for government (@dominiccampbell @carriebish and team http://bit.ly/m6dZ4Q)http://wearefuturegov.com
London
GB

: HumanTech LivingLab

A business hub of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and Tourism Services has been built up in Lutakko, and Tourism Services have been built up in Himos. The Living Lab operates by using Service design methods. Ideas will be created, new services and business models will be produced and tested, and competence and technology will be produced in collaboration with public development organizations, companies, research institutes, employees, students, and the residents of and visitors to the region. Service design methods, experience management, ICT and sustainability are important themes for HumanTech LL. Humantech LivingLab provides tools and help for companies and civil society in product development, for example service/experience design tools, methods & process, customer research, analyzing and foresight tools & methods and conceptualization.http://www.jamk.fi
Piippukatu 3
Jyväskylä
Finlande-Centrale
FI

: LEVIER

LEVIER (Laboratoire d’Expérimentation et Valorisation Images Et Réseaux) Living Labs, thanks to its diversity of broadband infrastructures and its panels of users wants to provide an experimental facility, services and methodology for enterprises and R&D project wanting to practice user centric R&D. LEVIER is much centered around the fixed-mobile convergence paradigm and provides both “real” and virtual infrastructures.The LEVIER Living Lab is federated around the Images et Réseaux Cluster and the M@rsouin project and is operated by the Images et Réseaux Cluster under ImaginLab brand.http://imaginlab.fr/blog-en/http://www.images-et-reseaux.com/http://www.marsouin.org/
FR

: Ways Of Learning for the Future (WOLF LL)

: Thessaly Living Lab

The Living Lab Thessaly (LLT) is a consortium of private and public bodies that constitute an innovative pole of reference for knowledge promotion focusing on “Quality of Life”. As such, the LLT aspires to exploit the unique climate, economic and societal conditions of Greece and facilitate testing for quality of life services and strategies in large populations. LLT is a founding member of the European Network of Living Labs (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/) and one of the few of its kind in the Southeastern Europe. Moreover, the partners who comprise the LLT are already active in European-driven community and research efforts.http://www.cereteth.gr
Technology Park of Thessaly
Thessaly1st Industrial AreaGR
Volos
Thessalie
GR

: Telecommunication Networks and integrated Services Laboratory

Telecommunication Networks and integrated Services Living Lab (TNS LL) conductsresearch and development in all areas related to telecommunication networks andservices. Through its research, development and educational activities, the Laboratory willcontribute to the realization of a human-centric Information and Communication Society.To this end, the TNS LL is very actively involved in the areas of cognitive networks andservices, autonomic computing, networked information systems, Internet technologies,wireless and broadband networks, network and service management, policy basedmanagement, design and management of B3G/4G mobile and wired broadband networks,network simulation and performance evaluation, heuristic- and machine learning-basedoptimization algorithms, service and software engineering.http://tns.ds.unipi.gr
Gregoriou Labraki 122
Pirée
Attique
GR

: Trentino as a Lab

Trentino as a Lab (TasLab) is a cooperation cluster whose goal is to develop user-centric innovation and which involves all the three main innovation actors, namely research centers, enterprises and users. The research centers involved are:■the University of Trento (Department of ICT),■Fondazione Bruno Kessler,■GraphiTech, ■CREATE-NET, ■ISTC- CNR ■Laboratorio di Interoperabilità ed e-Government (LEGO), http://www.taslab.eu
Trente
Trentin-Haut-Adige
IT

: Amsterdam Living Lab

The Amsterdam region has an excellent broadband infrastructure, many international companies involved in design and several world class knowledge institutions. The creative industry is present through many (small) design companies. The population is well educated, internationally oriented and eager to try new products and services. The foundation for a strong position in the design of experience is present.Challenge for the future is to design the experience with a strong focus and understanding of the fickle user. Technical improvements are often not the most determining factor for success of failure. Social aspects and experience are decisive in the outcome of new introductions. More and more content is produced by consumers themselves. Services consist of complex combinations of other services, linked together through advanced ICT, assembled and configured by users themselves. This all leads to the conclusion that design and develop processes must be redesigned with the new realities in mind.http://www.aimsterdam.nl
Amsterdam
Hollande-Septentrionale
NL

: Lighting Living Lab

The Lighting Living Lab mission is to promote innovation and the development of research in new technologies and applications in the field of lighting, focused on the concepts of Smart Lighting and Eco-friendly Lighting, and supported by the ICT sector, giving birth to new services/systems/products and business opportunities. The user-driven approach is necessary to change the current paradigm of the lighting usage: to pass from lighting seen as a mere utility (supporting the human activity in a context of insufficient illumination), to lighting seen as a mean to achieve objectives like, for instance, to enhance the sense of comfort and enable further personalization of environments. This implies behavioural changes which only the Living Lab user driven methodology can achieve. Simultaneously, this is a mean to reduce energy consumption by using new lighting technologies (e.g. Light-emitting diode, LED, or new light sources) and adapting its usage to the real needs and tastes of the user. http://www.lighting-living-lab.pt
Câmara Municipal de Águeda Praça do Município
Águeda
PT

: i2Cat Catalonia Digital Lab

The i2CAT foundation is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote research and innovation in advanced Internet technology. The i2CAT model aims to make Internet research and innovation accessible to the whole of society through collaboration between the public sector, businesses and research groups within universities and the educational world. http://www.i2cat.net
2-4 Nexus I
2 floor, office 203
Barcelone
Catalogne
ES

: Living Lab Salud Andalucia

The Living Lab Salud Andalucia is an Open Innovation Community, Administration - University -Industry - Civil Society, using living environments (bed-home-hospital-neighbourhood-city region... ) and open technology platforms, to exploit the potential of social capital and technology in the development of user-centred and innovative products, services and business in the Public Healthcare System of the Andalusia Autonomous Region in Spain.
Avda. de la Innovacion
s/n. Edificio Arena 1 Sevilla 41021, Spain
Sevilla
ES

: espaitec Living Lab (eLiving Lab)

The aim of e'LivingLab, the Living Lab created by espaitec -Science and Technology Park (STP) of Castellon (SPAIN)- is to provide diverse scenarios for the companies linked (physically or virtually) to the STP to design, develop and test their products in the most real environment: the University Campus together with R&D groups from the University, others companies that can create some sort of synergies among them, Local and Regional Governments and citizens.http://www.espaitec.uji.es
espaitec, Science,Technology and Business Park
Jaume I UniversityCastellon de la Plana
ES

: Bird Living Lab

: Botnia Living Lab

Sweden’s first and largest open Living Lab for human-centric ICT development.Botnia’s focus is to support human-centric innovation of advanced ICT Services for “Extended Capabilities and Mobility”. The basic idea is to engage end-users, individuals and stakeholder organisations, along a targeted value chain, in the total process from need-finding and idea-generation, through concept-development and prototype/usability testing to pilot service validation of market and marketing principles. The Botnia partnership includes some of the strongest international ICT/Telco organisations, numerous SMEs as well as national and regional public authorities. http://www.testplats.com
Luleå
SE

: Manchester Living Lab

A major focus of the living labs approach is in East Manchester where the City Council has formed an Urban Regeneration Company (URC): New East Manchester (NEM) Ltd. This public-private-community partnership operating on a not-for-profit basis has led the establishment of an online community network, “Eastserve”, run in partnership with local citizens’ organisations and representatives, which is linked to a city-wide initiative, the Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA).http://www.manchesterdda.com
Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)Manchester City Council
Lower Ground Floor 117-119, Portland Street
Manchester
GB

: Social Informatics Lab (SILab)

The contexts of transformation, innovation and partnership across organisational, cultural and disciplinary boundaries that have generated the ideas and practice of the Social Informatics Laboratory precisely match the challenges facing Newcastle University both internally, in maintaining and developing its research base, and externally in its engagement with the Region and beyond. Collaboration is a core business modality of a research led university and the creation and sustenance of collaborative structures and mechanisms are one of its core means of acting in and as a community. We expect that our membership into European Network of Living Labs would reinforce our commitment towards both maintaining and developing our research base to enable and promote interdisciplinary and partnership working as well as our future engagement in the Region and beyond.http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/
Newcastle University, CITYWALL, Citygate
St James' Boulevard, Gallowgate
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
GB

: City Lab Coventry

The Coventry City Lab vision is: To improve the quality of life for urban citizens and create an exemplar Low Carbon community in Coventry through:■Establishing Coventry as a test-bed, incubation hub and international showcase for low carbon innovations■Collaboration between key, world-renowned, research and industrial bodies and the ENoLL■Use of the consortium’s critical mass of expertise, facilities and resources to accelerate route to markethttp://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/business/CoventryCityLab/Pages/LivingLabs.aspxwww.coventry.ac.uk
Priory Street
Coventry
GB

: InfoAlamedaCounty

InfoAlamedaCounty is a project of the nonprofit Urban Strategies Council. Based in Oakland, InfoAlameda is a data warehouse, opendata portal and mapping platform for the City of Oakland and Alameda County.We're supporting the opendata and opengov movements in the east bay and have been doing social justice focused spatial research since 1987.

: Aalto Design Factory

Design Factory is a 3000 square metre working environment enabling creative work, knowledge sharing and experience exchange. All facilities are designed for flexible use, with free interaction and prototyping made as easy as possible. Spaces can be easily modified and rearranged for various set-ups and different purposes of use. Meanwhile, the overall layout of the Factory encourages open communication and spontaneous encounters.http://designfactory.aalto.fi
Betonimiehenkuja 5c
Espoo
FI

: StreetLab

Streetlab is a Dutch platform dedicated to young artists such as fashion designers, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and musicians. Since its start in late 2005, Streetlab puts undiscovered talents centre stage through organizing exhibitions at their own Projectspace in Amsterdam, portfolio nights, businesscases and workshops. Streetlab nurtures young talents and stimulates the development of creativity and business sense. Therefore Streetlab provides the artists with a network of experienced professionals. This gives them the opportunity to expand their network and learn the tricks of the trade. http://www.streetlab.nl
Piet Heinkade 181K
Amsterdam
Hollande-Septentrionale
NL

: Platform 4

Platform4 is a non-profit organisation, in which users are invited to join in on shaping content within the art and technology frame - in a 3000 sq. meter former warehouse in the Østre Havn harbour area in the center of the city of Aalborg, Denmark. http://www.platform4.dk
Rapsgade 4
Aalborg
Jutland-du-Nord
DK

: BuzzCar

Buzzcar uses people's own cars. They rent them out to neighbors. People put cars they aren't regularly using on our network, and we make those accessible easily and quickly. It's all done with a location-based app on your smartphone that lets you find and reserve the cars around you. To ensure quality, after each rental, drivers rate the cars, and the owners rate the drivers, building a vehicle and driver history. The company covers liability insurance.Il est possible de louer des voitures à Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nantes et Marseilles. http://www.buzzcar.com
Paris
Île-de-France
FR

: OpenData Euskadi

: @OpenCFSummit

OpenCF Summit is a community gathering February 24-26, 2012 that is focused exclusively on advancing free and open source software and Gov 2.0 in the CFML community.
4999 Naaman Forest Boulevard
Garland
TX
United States

: Mobile-Enhanced Participatory Budgeting

As a result of efforts led by a multi-stakeholder coalition (e.g. civil society, government, academia), in 2011 the provincial government of South-Kivu (DRC) started to mandate participatory budgeting across the province.

Mobile phones have played an instrumental role in the process. Prior to the assemblies where citizens convene to decide on the budget allocation, hundreds of thousands of messages (SMS) are sent to citizens, inviting them to attend the meetings. Until this moment, over 250.000 text messages have been sent. These interventions ensure high levels of popular mobilization and foster the inclusiveness of the participatory budgeting process. Via their mobile phones citizens can also vote for budgetary priorities and receive updates on the status of the selected public works.

The impacts on the ground are by no means negligible. As indicated by the preliminary results of an external evaluation, for the first time in the region local governments are realizing investments at the local level, benefiting the poorest sections of society. Moreover, the activities carried out have led to a dramatic reduction of tax evasion at the local level, with citizens more willing to pay taxes as they link government spending to improvement in the delivery of services.
Bukavu
South-Kivu
CD

: Muong Hoa Project

Muong Hoa is the valley below the Fansipan mountain, and also home of many ethnic minorities villages in Sapa district. We are currently looking for someone to help us getting started for our community based tourism (CBT) projects : http://www.muonghoa.com/project.php

: Sarcha

Sarcha is a school of architecture for all. A not-for-profit organization, it aims to educate and activate the public regarding architecture’s impact on the formation of the ever-changing, life-shaping environment. It promotes research, actions and projects that examine architecture’s relation and connection with the diverse and political aspects of individual and collective activities.

: Kundalini Research Network

The Kundalini Research Network is an international group of health care professionals, researchers, scholars and individuals interested in the transformative poser of consciousness, known in the Yogic tradition as Kundalini. The Kundalini Research Network is dedicated to exploring an supporting this remarkable facet of our humanity. http://www.kundalininet.org
P.O. Box 541166
Cincinnati
Ohio
US

: DoES Liverpool

DoES Liverpool is a co-working and workshop/studio space in the heart of Liverpool’s city centre.DoES was founded by a group of us (Adrian McEwen, John McKerrell, Hakim Cassimally, Paul Freeman, Andy Goodwin and Ross Jones) who’d been running Maker Nights and sharing a smaller office since summer 2010. When we needed to move office in summer 2011, we decided to take things on a step – we set up DoES Liverpool CIC and found ourselves somewhere with enough room for more people and the space for a workshop.

We’re not running it to make our fortunes (and as a CIC all profits get reinvested in a better space or more useful equipment for the members), we just thought that there was a need for this sort of space in Liverpool.http://doesliverpool.com
Liverpool
Merseyside
GB

: Bristol Hackerspace

Bristol Hackspace is a social enterprise which aims to open up technology to anybody who takes an interest in it.We want to ‘open’ technology both in the sense of taking things apart to learn how they work, and how to mend or adapt them; and in the sense of sharing the knowledge we gain from doing so. We are committed to the principles of Open Source and Open Knowledge.http://bristol.hackspace.org.uk
Bristol
Bristol
GB

: York Hackspace

: HackMan

HAC:Manchester is a Hackspace Group, a community-run arts, science and technology club. We run weekly drop-in workshop sessions, providing electronics, mechanical and computing knowledge, and tools for personal and group projects.

Our aim is to provide a space where people can work on their projects, hang out socially to talk about making things, plot world domination* and work together to develop their collective skills.You can find our Mailing list at http://hacman.org.uk/listhttp://hacman.org.uk
Manchester
Greater Manchester
GB

: Shropshire Hackspace

: MadLab

The Madlab is a community space for people who want to do and make interesting stuff - a place for geeks, artists, designers, illustrators, hackers, tinkerers, innovators and idle dreamers; an autonomous R&D laboratory and a release valve for Manchester's creative communities.It’s a space you can get together with like-minded individuals and work on your urban gardening, crochet, hacking, programming, media arts, filmmaking, animating project without worrying that you’re in a library, coffee shop, pub or other unsuitable venue. We know hackers and craftspeople need work space and may need to get down and dirty – we also know sometimes you need a quiet area to present and show works to your peers. We support both activities. And we hope there will be a rich mix of individuals who’ll get out of the usual zones, the knitter talking to the software architect, the cupcake maker scheming with the laser etching builder. We know some good will come of this.http://madlab.org.uk
Manchester
Greater Manchester
GB

: NottingHack

Nottinghack is a Nottingham based group for hackers, makers and crafty creatives!Hacking is NOT to be confused with network hacking, identity theft and computer virus propagation, etc. Nottinghack does not condone anything illegal; hardware Hacking is a creative, educational hobby!http://nottinghack.org.uk/
junction of Alfred Street South and Ashley Street
Nottingham
Nottingham
GB

: Reading Hackspace

Reading Hackspace has existed in some form or another for about 5 years. The current incarnation, founded largely by the enormous enthusiasm of Ryan White, now has both a space and the beginning of an active membership. The space is in Woodley, at the old Storage King reception building. http://www.readingmakerspace.co.uk/wiki/Main_Page
Unit 5, Headley Park Nine
Headley Road
Woodley
Berkshire
GB

: DeckSpace

DECKSPACE is an SPC Media Lab in Borough Hall, Greenwich. A serious climb with prime views and an evolution of environment for tea drinkers node builders and code meddlers to relay power and light into public space fit for use. http://dek.spc.org/
London
GB

: Edingburg HackLab

Edinburgh Hacklab is part of the worldwide movement of Hackerspaces – shared spaces for people who mess around with technology for fun. By creating a shared space to do this, we provide access to better facilities than we could each have at home, as well as opportunities to collaborate, learn, and socialise.

Edinburgh Hacklab was launched on 24th August 2010 and is currently based just off Leith Walk, at Out of the Blue in the Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street. http://edinburghhacklab.com
Studio S5 Out Of The Blue
36 Dalmeny Street
Edimbourg
Midlothian
GB

: Derby Makers

: Newcastle upon Tyne Hackerspace

Maker Space is a “Hacker Space” in Newcastle upon Tyne. In the space we build and create hardware and software because we love to learn and create. We are “hobbyist” hackers not “criminal computer” hackers and do not tolerate criminal behaviour. Think of it as a communal garden shed full of mad inventors.http://www.makerspace.org.uk
The Cottage, c/o The Star And Shadow,
Stepney Bank
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
GB

: NortHACKton

: Noisebridge

We began building Noisebridge in February 2007. Since December 2007 we've had regular Tuesday meetings, and rented our first physical space as of October 1st 2008. We quickly outgrew our first space and have been at our much larger 5,200 square-foot second location since October 1st 2009. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
2169 Mission Street
San Francisco
Californie
US

: NYC Resistors

NYC Resistor is a hacker collective with a shared space located in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. We meet regularly to share knowledge, hack on projects together, and build community. If you’re interested in joining NYC Resistor, come to some of our public meetings (like the study group listed below) or join the NYC Resistor mailing list.http://www.nycresistor.com
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
New York
État de New York
US

: Moddr

moddr_ is a Rotterdam-based media/hacker/co-working space and DIY/FOSS/OSHW fablab for artgeeks, part of the venue WORM: Institute for Avantgardistic Recreation.Since being founded in 2007 by alumni of the Piet Zwart Institute (department of “Networked Media“) they host and promote young local and international talent with a focus on the artistic modification (’modding‘) of contemporary and emerging technology. moddr_ represents a critical attitude in our ‘new’-medialandscape through spawning and development of artistic projects, workshop series, lectures, exhibitions and of course good parties.http://moddr.net
Boomgaardstraat 71
Rotterdam
Hollande-Méridionale
NL

: HappyLab FabLab Vienna

In order to be developed and put in motion, ideas need space. So-called "fab labs" don't only provide this space, they also supply the machines necessary for making individual projects happen. The term "fab lab" is short for "fabrication laboratory" and refers to a public high-tech workshop where diverse products can be created individually using computer-controlled machines.

Happylab is one of more than 95 fab labs on the World. They all foster innovation by giving people access to complex production technologies. A fab lab can be used to make (almost) anything. Learning by doing is an essential characteristic. Training in fab labs based on doing projects and learning from peers.

Happylab isn't just a laboratory and workshop however; it serves most primarily as a meeting point for people of all ages who are interested in creative engagement with modern technology. It is a place where ideas can be introduced, discussed and immediately put into action.http://www.happylab.at/en/home/
Haussteinstraße 4/2
Vienne
Vienne
AT

: Bright Youth Council

: FabLab Switzerland

: Thousand Stars Youth Project

A youth Café , Youth Education initiative. This venture is in its infant stage and we hope to establish a network of Irish youth cafés to induce a national youth community through which we can better hear the voice of the up and coming generations here in Ireland.
Birr
County Offaly
IE

: We Connect Now

Our Mission – We Connect Now is dedicated to uniting people interested in rights and issues affecting people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on college students and access to higher education and employment issues.http://weconnectnow.wordpress.com
Louisiana
Missouri
US

: SFZero

SFZero is a Collaborative Production Game. Players build characters by completing tasks for their groups and increasing their Score. The goals of play include meeting new people, exploring the city, and participating in non-consumer leisure activities.http://sf0.org
San Francisco
Californie
US

: Newmindspace

Newmindspace is a New York- and Toronto-based urban arts collective founded in 2005 by Lori Kufner and Kevin Bracken. The pair organizes free, monthly events in cities throughout North America. Using a mailing list and their website newmindspace.com to communicate with their community, Newmindspace hosts all-ages events that generally attract teenagers, twentysomethings and people in their early 30's. Their events have inspired other groups to undertake similar projects in cities around the world. http://www.newmindspace.com
Toronto
ON
CA

: Opendata en Castilla-La Mancha (España)

Agustina Piedrabuena Moraleda has hand on open government experience. She managed an open data portal as the Director General for Information Society and Telecommunications at Government of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. She believes that open data, the fuel of this New Age of Information, has the power to give the society a new economic engine and a new active form of relationship with governments. Open Government allows as never before that we can participate in the management of public affairs and, on one hand, have greater knowledge, information and control over the actions of politicians and public managers and on the other, intervene, collaborate and participate in the management, thus recovering the proximity between public administration and citizens.Edgeryders mission report. (We the people, Spotlight: open government)http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int/we-people/mission_case/opendata-en-castilla-la-mancha-espa%C3%B1
Calle Labradores
Ciudad Real
Castille la Manche
ES

: Montréal Ouvert

Open Data

Montréal Ouvert is grass-root initiative which aims to promote open access to civic data in the region of Montreal. This group of citizens believes that access to data and information increases civic engagement, makes municipal services more accessible and facilitates innovation. By creating this virtual space, citizens hope to initiate and sustain a dialogue between stakeholders for the benefit of all Montrealers. http://montrealouvert.net

: City of Edmonton Open data catalog

The City of Edmonton's open data catalogue is powered by OGDI, a Microsoft open source project. OGDI provides web services to access and query data stored in the Windows Azure platform, providing direct access to pre-filtered data in a variety of formats. OGDI is distributed under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL).http://data.edmonton.ca
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada

Everything Gov 2.0, connected and open government for Federal, State & Local public sectors, tech leaders and civic innovators. Founder: Adriel Hampton Host: Allison Hornery Production: Cofluence http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gov20#
Los Angeles
United States

: Recollect

Recollect - a reminder service for citizens - has a single goal: To help make citizens lives just a little bit easier by providing them customized reminders for services they use to the device of their choice, at the time of their choice. Recollect started in 2009 as VanTrash, an idea that David Eaves blogged about while thinking about open government data. Later at a community hackathon Luke Closs and Kevin Jones decided it might be a fun project. After enjoying some initial success we felt that everyone should enjoy the benefits of a garbage reminder service so we created Recollect.https://recollect.net
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada

: Edgeryders

Conceived, proposed and run by the Social Cohesion Research and Development Division of the Council of Europe, with financial support from the European Commission, Edgeryders uses a web platform to gather ethnographic data, and augment them with information on the respondents’ position in the social graph of the platform (for example, measures of network centrality to signify authoritativeness). The team will then propose a synthesis of these data and push it out to the community for wiki-style validation: this should result in a picture of the world that the young people of Europe are trying to build based on what they are actually putting their time and effort in. And, hopefully, increase a little the chance that they - we all, really - might succeed.http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int
Council of Europe Agora Building
Allée des Droits de l'Homme
Strasbourg
France

: ENoLL, European Network of Living Labs

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006 under the auspices of the Finnish European Presidency, the network has grown in ‘waves’ up to this day. To this date, 5 Waves have been launched, resulting in 274 accepted Living Labs. The ENoLL international non-profit association, as the legal representative entity of the network, is headquartered in Brussels, at the heart of Europe. http://www.openlivinglabs.eu
Pleinlaan 9
Brussels
Belgium

: Capitale Ouverte

: CivicTEC

CivicTEC is a new kind of not-for-profit organisation for these 2.0 times. It’s an emerging international network that draws from the evolving entrepreneurial culture of social innovation, bringing public sector leaders, technology corporates and gurus together with the policy thought leaders and community practitioners that make real change happen.

: YEG Girl Geek Dinners

Girl Geek Dinners began in London, England when Sarah Blow was sick and tired of being one of a very few number of women at tech events. We’ve also noticed a lack of girl-centric tech events in Edmonton so we applied to Girl Geek Dinners and received our own local Chapter and we would love for you to be involved.

Our idea of a ‘geek’ is anything from a lover of gadgets to programmers and everything in between. So no matter what your level of geekdom you are welcome to this event.http://yeggirlgeek.wordpress.com
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada

: Code for America

Code for America helps governments work better for everyone with the people and the power of the web. Through our Fellowship, Accelerator, and Brigade, we're building a network of cities, citizens, community groups, and startups, all equally committed to reimagining government for the 21st century.

Code for America is a new non-profit, and a new kind of organization. Our team is made up of web geeks, city experts, and technology industry leaders. We are building a network of civic leaders and organizations who believe there is a better way of doing things and want to make a difference.

: NationBuilder.com

NationBuilder is the essential toolkit for a new generation of leaders and creators. Whether you are a political candidate, advocacy group, artist, or aspiring to greatness, NationBuilder provides the tools you need to organize and build your base of support... to build your nation. We built NationBuilder with an eye on the political and non-profit world, but also believe it can be applied more broadly to benefit independent creators of all kinds. We crowdfunded films before it was called crowdfunding and used grassroots political organizing to distribute them. We've learned the ins and outs of what it takes to have an impact in the 21st century, and now you have the tool to do the same.http://nationbuilder.com
Los Angeles
Californie
US